So we loaded up a big bus and headed to OKC for the day. Our first stop was the Science Museum. It was fun and kids loved running around playing with all hands on experiments. We attended a live performance where we watched a lady play with fire and blow stuff up. There were at least 5 other middle schools there to watch and she took volunteers from the audience to help. At one point she told the kids she needed an adult volunteer and to go crazy for their favorite teacher. My kids went nuts FOR ME!!!! Totally crazy. I have never felt so loved. So I was chosen out of all of the schools that were there. I got to hold an explosion. It was cool. After the kids kept coming up to me saying wow Mrs. Jackson, you are so cool! Now I know what it's like to be the cool kid :) 
Goofing off and having fun!
After the museum we went to the memorial and museum. I had been to the outside before but never inside. It was really good, they take you through the whole day, you leave feeling like you were there. The bomb was set off downtown outside a Federal building at 9:02am in April of 1995. I was in 7th grade and in the process of moving from New York to Ohio. In the blast the daycare was destroyed and all of the kids died (19 or 20 I can't remember). Most of my students were moved and was nice to see a softer side to them. There is one; however, I will never forget. He was standing in the elevator getting ready to go up to the beginning of the display and had a pair of scissors in his hand. I asked him what he was doing with them, expecting the worst (he is a 7th grade boy, and you never know what in the world they are doing) but he tells me, " I have to do something to remember those kids! I am cutting up my shoe laces so I can leave them on their memorials here. No one should ever forget them, I won't cause these are my favorite shoes Mrs. Jackson." And then I cried!
And here they all are, my children, my first class all 57. I think we learned a lot together this year and I will miss them!
Goofing off and having fun!
After the museum we went to the memorial and museum. I had been to the outside before but never inside. It was really good, they take you through the whole day, you leave feeling like you were there. The bomb was set off downtown outside a Federal building at 9:02am in April of 1995. I was in 7th grade and in the process of moving from New York to Ohio. In the blast the daycare was destroyed and all of the kids died (19 or 20 I can't remember). Most of my students were moved and was nice to see a softer side to them. There is one; however, I will never forget. He was standing in the elevator getting ready to go up to the beginning of the display and had a pair of scissors in his hand. I asked him what he was doing with them, expecting the worst (he is a 7th grade boy, and you never know what in the world they are doing) but he tells me, " I have to do something to remember those kids! I am cutting up my shoe laces so I can leave them on their memorials here. No one should ever forget them, I won't cause these are my favorite shoes Mrs. Jackson." And then I cried!
And here they all are, my children, my first class all 57. I think we learned a lot together this year and I will miss them!
